Rasa - On Monday, September 22, the United States and Russia brokered a ceasefire deal and agreed to engage in joint operations against the Nusra Front in Syria. US officials are now suggesting that almost certainly is not going to happen.

Rasa - What if another Syria truce deal died and nobody noticed, even at the United Nations Security Council?

Rasa - Russia and America’s fragile attempt to stop five years of fighting in Syria is in jeopardy because of attacks by rebel forces and terrorist groups, as well as the woeful response of Western leaders.

Rasa - First they blamed former PM Tony Blair for the Iraq disaster and let him off the hook. Now Britain’s Foreign Affairs Committee is blaming former PM David Cameron for Libya becoming terror base for twisted ISIL fanatics. If Chilcot Inquiry is prologue, Cameron will be off the hook as well.

Rasa - A period of relative calm seems to have returned to Syria since a ceasefire deal brokered by the United States and Russia went into effect on Monday.

Rasa – Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian Foreign Minister, has written an op-ed in the New York Times entitled “Let us rid the world of Wahhabism.”

Rasa - Since it began in 1962, American military aid to Israel has amounted to nearly $100 billion. For the past decades the United States has been transferring aid of about $3 billion annually.

Rasa - For years, the world has heard a steady drumbeat of anti-Muslim bigotry and war in the West, where political candidates and politicians like Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, Geert Wilders and Frankenstein ISIL all speak in one language: the language of bigotry, xenophobia and terror.

Rasa - George Orwell once said, “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Rasa - Critics see Saudi Arabia’s export of a rigid strain of Islam as contributing to terrorism, but the kingdom’s influence depends greatly on local conditions.